Questions tagged [computational-geometry]
Using computers to solve geometric problems. Questions with this tag should typically have at least one other tag indicating what sort of geometry is involved, such as ag.algebraic-geometry or mg.metric-geometry.
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Placing triangles around a central triangle: Optimal Strategy?
This question has gone for a while without an answer on MSE (despite a bounty that came and went) so I am now cross-posting it here, on MO, in the hope that someone may have an idea about how to ...
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Why is the Vietoris–Rips complex $\operatorname{VR}(S, \epsilon)$ a subset of the Čech complex $\operatorname{Čech}(S, \epsilon\sqrt{2})$?
$\DeclareMathOperator\Cech{Čech}\DeclareMathOperator\VR{VR}$I am reading Fasy, Lecci, Rinaldo, Wasserman, Balakrishnan, and Singh - Confidence sets for persistence diagrams (see here for a version of ...
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Detecting a PL sphere and decompositions
Question 1. A PL $n$-sphere is a pure simplicial complex that is a triangulation of the $n$-sphere. I'm looking for a computer algorithm that gives a Yes/No answer to whether a given simplicial ...
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Algorithm to find largest planar section of a convex polyhedral solid
We add a bit more on shadows and planar sections following On a pair of solids with both corresponding maximal planar sections and shadows having equal area . We consider only polyhedrons.
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Polyline averaging
I'm trying to find a method that can take a collection of polylines, each described by a list of connected points on a plane, and find an "average" path through them. The input lines do not loop.
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An algorithm to arrange max number of copies of a polygon around and touching another polygon
A related post: To place copies of a planar convex region such that number of 'contacts' among them is maximized
Basic question: Given two convex polygonal regions P and Q, to arrange the max ...
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Inside-out dissections of solids -2
We record some general questions based on
Inside-out dissections of solids
Inside-out dissections of a cube
Can every convex polyhedral solid be inside-out dissected to a congruent polyhedral solid?...
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Closest vertices of an AABB to a ray in n-dimensions
I came across this computational geometry problem and have not been able to find a satisfactory solution for it. A ray is known to originate from within an n-dimensional hypercube (AABB) in any ...
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Explicit computation of Čech-cohomology of coherent sheaves on $\mathbb{P}^n_A$
$\newcommand{\proj}[1]{\operatorname{proj}(#1)}
\newcommand{\PSP}{\mathbb{P}}$These days I noticed the following result of (constructive) commutative algebra, which I think is probably well known ...
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Finding generators of symmetric cones
I have a bunch of vectors $\mathbf v_i$ in $\mathbb R^n$. I would like to consider the cone $C$ spanned by these vectors, together with all the other vectors that can be obtained by permuting the ...
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Inside-out dissections of a cube
Ref:
Inside-out polygonal dissections
Inside-out dissections of solids
Definitions: A polygon P has an inside-out dissection into another polygon P' if P′ is congruent to P, and the perimeter of P ...
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Practical way of computing bitangent lines of a quartic (using computers)
Are there known practical algorithms or methods to calculate the bitangent lines of a quartic defined by $f(u,v,t)=0$ in terms of the 15 coefficients? Theoretically you can set up $f(u,v,-au-bv)=(k_0u^...
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On finding optimal convex planar shapes to cover a given convex planar shape
Covering a specific convex shape S with n copies of another specified convex shape S' (which may be different from S) is well studied - for example, https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html....
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Bounding the length difference of two curves given the Fréchet distance between them
Given two simple, closed, convex, planar curves $C_1$ and $C_2$, let their lengths be $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$, respectively, and their Fréchet distance be $d_f$. We are trying to bound $|\ell_1 - \ell_2|...
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An algorithm to decide whether a convex polygon can be cut into 2 mutually congruent pieces
This post is based on the answer to this question: A claim on partitioning a convex planar region into congruent pieces
A perfect congruent partition of a planar region is a partition of it with no ...
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